sugar tongs
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sugar tongs
First recorded in 1700–10
Example Sentences
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Wednesday’s Miss Manners column incorrectly stated that if a crouton falls down the dress of the lady seated next to you, etiquette dictates removing it with the sugar tongs.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021
His fastidious diction is unmistakable: he picks up words as if with sugar tongs – as if each syllable needed personal attention.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2013
So he became one of the nation's pioneer discounters, advertising in the Virginia Gazette "for sale, very cheap, for ready money," silver teaspoons, sugar tongs and shoe buckles, gold and silver buttons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except, that is, for the sugar tongs: Solti squeezed them too tightly, and his sugar cube popped into the breast pocket of Covent Garden's administrator, the late Sir David Webster.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You grew up in an orphanage just like me, but the nuns never told me anything about sugar tongs or stuff like that.”
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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